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Gerreidae Bleeker 1859

Description

GERREIDAE

Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki & Kimura 1998

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Gerres filamentosus), Sudan (Borodin 1930, as Gerres filamentosus), Eritrea (Iwatsuki et al. 2015), Saudi Arabia (Iwatsuki et al. 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Gulf of Thailand.

Remark: Red Sea records of Gerres filamentosus (non Cuvier 1829) are based on this species (see Iwatsuki et al. 2015).

Gerres longirostris (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932, as Gerres acinaces).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (new record, based on HUJ 20071, identified by Y. Iwatsuki).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Gerres rüppellii), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Marquesas Islands.

Gerres macracanthus Bleeker 1854

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Iwatsuki et al. 2015), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.

Gerres oblongus Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tilier 1902).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and Samoa.

Gerres oyena (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Gerres oeyena), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Samoa.

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bleeker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Gerreidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Gerreidae Bleeker, 1859 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018

References

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  • Borodin, N. A. (1930) Scientific results of the Yacht " Ara " Expedition during the years 1926 to 1930, while in command of William K. Vanderbilt. Fishes (collected in 1929). Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 1 (2), 39 - 64, pls. 1 - 2.
  • Iwatsuki, Y., Bogorodsky, S. V., Tanaka, F., Mal, A. O. & Ali, A. H. (2015) Range extension of Gerres infasciatus (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, with distributional implications for the G. filamentosus complex. Cybium, 39 (2), 155 - 160.
  • Chabanaud, P. (1932) Poissons recueillis dans le Grand Lac Amer (isthme de Suez) par M. le Professeur A. Gruvel, en 1932. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Series 2, 4 (7), 822 - 835.
  • Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1
  • Tillier, J. - B. (1902) Le canal de Suez et sa faune ichthyologique. Memoires de la Societe oologique de France, 14, 279 - 318, pl. 1. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / MF 01124
  • Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.
  • Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.
  • Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1 - 12.
  • Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1870) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. I. Theil. Percoiden-Mugiloiden. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 20, 669 - 834.
  • Fowler, H. W. (1931) The fishes obtained by the De Schauensee South African Expedition, 1930. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 83, 233 - 249.
  • Kossmann, R. & Rauber, H. (1877) Fische. Wissenschftliche Reise in die Kustengebiete des Rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg, 1, 378 - 420, pls. 3 - 4.